The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton June 2015 Readalong

June 2, 2015

Our Travel the World in Books Reading Challenge Goodreads group voted for our June readalong selection and the results are in! The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton edged out The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman by just ONE vote, just goes to show every vote does count! If you want to have a say in what we read and for additional discussion on this and other books from around the world, don’t forget to join our Travel the World in Books Reading Challenge Goodreads group.

I have had The Forgotten Garden and Kate Morton books on my bookshelf for awhile now since my book blogger friends kept recommending her books to me. I’ve snagged a couple of her books from library sales and Julie from My Book Retreat just gave me this one to read when we met last month.

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Synopsis from Goodreads:

A tiny girl is abandoned on a ship headed for Australia in 1913. She arrives completely alone with nothing but a small suitcase containing a few clothes and a single book; a beautiful volume of fairy tales. She is taken in by the dockmaster and his wife and raised as their own. On her twenty-first birthday, they tell her the truth, and with her sense of self shattered and very little to go on, “Nell” sets out to trace her real identity. Her quest leads her to Blackhurst Manor on the Cornish coast and the secrets of the doomed Mountrachet family. But it is not until her granddaughter, Cassandra, takes up the search after Nell&#8217;s death that all the pieces of the puzzle are assembled. A spellbinding tale of mystery and self-discovery, The Forgotten Garden will take hold of your imagination and never let go.

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Big Book Summer Challenge

Since this book is 500+ pages long, I’ve decided to join my good friend Sue’s Big Book Summer Challenge too. This challenge runs from Memorial Day through Labor Day and is to read those big books (over 400 pages) from our bookshelves. I’m writing down all the books I want to read over 400 pages, let’s see how many I can get through with review books and book club books to read too. I have no idea which one to focus on after The Forgotten Garden, so help me out!

Books to Choose From

1. The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton (548 pages) – reading this one for sure, of course!

Welcome to the Big Book Summer Challenge, Tanya!! So glad you decided to join the fun 🙂

Wish I could join your June readathon, but I’ll have to pass on this one – I already have 2 book group books to read this month and am still working on my first Big Book of the summer. But I read The Forgotten Garden for a book group a few years ago and enjoyed it.

You’ve got a great list of Big Books here! Pillars of the Earth was my very first Summertime Big Book, before I started the challenge – it’s what inspired me to start t the following summer. I loved it and was totally engrossed – but it IS a hefty one! And, of course, I just finished reading Shadow of the Wind, too, so the sequel is definitely appealing.

Thanks Sue, I figured you’d recommend Pillars of the Earth to me, everyone that has read it raves about it! Well I hope you’ll still stop by the discussions for the Forgotten Garden and share with us what you remember. Have a great summer and I’m sure we’ll be talking!

Glad you liked the Secret Keeper too, I think I have that one to read as well. Ohhh, I’ll be sure to nudge you on Twitter when I get to read River of No Return. It’s always more fun to read with people so I think this one just moved up the list!

I’m focused on #20booksofsummer and #bookishsideoflife, #Collaboreads, # June as Audiobook month, Paris in July, JA in August – sooo not tackling big books in summer 🙂 Other than this Forgotten Gardenreadalong, but def prefer chicklit and light reads to keep me out and about in our brief season of sunny warmth!
Thanks for making the button and schedule, Tanya! HapPy reading ? or isn’t it….?

Of course, it’s all happy reading for me! I will tackle the unhappy reading for professional certification later 🙂 It sounds like you have a ton of challenges going on. Glad you can join us for The Forgotten Garden!

Hi Laurie, did you mean to add your link to the Small Victories Sunday linkup. This one is to signup for a readalong of The Forgotten Garden. Just checking since you linked up a specific post and not just your blog. Thanks! Would love to have you join our readalong too 🙂

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